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KATHLEEN CLARKSON
A Thesis
Master of Arts
McMaster University
November 1973
MASTER OF ARTS (1973) McMASTER UNIVERSITY
(Religion) Hamilton, Ontario
dialogue.
PREFACE
iii
to thank D. J. Hawkin and K. Temple for their support and for
iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
I Introduction 5
V Conclusion 40
I Introduction 42
v
IV Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' 63
X Conclusion 113
BIBLIOGRAPHY 119
vi
INTRODUCTION
Very little, however, has been written on Karl Marx and religion.
1841-1846 seems a main reason for this, since it was during these
1
2
latter approach has been taken by Arend Th. van Leeuwen; e.g.,
suggests:
1
Arend Th. van Leeuwen, Critique of Heaven (London, 1972),
p. 48.
4
Fruther, within that debate, my thesis does not shed any light on
lIChristian-Marxistll dialogue.
MARX'S ATHEISM
I. Introduction
from Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach for his own quite dis-
of the best in man. One finds man's inhumanity and the other finds
5
6
also finds hell in heaven. Likewise, both Marx and Bauer assail
His Essence was published in 1841, but not until 1843, after the
Was Marx actually a militant atheist and, if so, how does one
that Marx was not a militant atheist, that "[a]ny direct struggle
'if, :\ ~.' -,-
1
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist
Party, trans. Samuel Moore (Moscow, 1952), p. 72. Hereafter this
will be referred to as Manifesto.
2
Nicholas Lobkowicz, "Marx's Attitude toward Religion", in
Marx and the Western World, ed. Nicholas Lobkowicz (Notre Dame,
1967), p. 304.
3
See David McLellan, The Young Hegelians and Karl Marx
(New York, 1969), p. 79. Hereafter this will be referred to as
Young Hegelians.
8
who wrote fuzzy polemics and not much else. In the particular
Feuerbach's works:
4
Between 1840-1843, Bauer designed his critiques to
effect immediate political change in Germany. However, after
the failures of radicalism, Bauer did shift in 1844 to a more
theoretical critique, "pure criticism", devoid of immediate
political impact.
5
See Sidney Hook, From Hegel to Marx: Studies in the
Intellectual Development of Karl Marx (2nd. ed.; Ann Arbor,
1962).
6
Karl LHwith; From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution
in Nineteenth-Century Thought, trans. David Green (3rd ed.; New
York, 1967), p. 80.
9
this difference:
still from Bruno Bauer that Marx gathered the substance of his
critique of religion.
7
Karl Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach", in Writings of the
Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, trans. Lloyd Easton and
Kurt Guddat (New York, 1967), p. 401. Hereafter this will be
referred to as "Theses". I am going on to show this passage
should not be interpreted in this way.
10
averred this earthly kernel was not what Feuerbach had designated
8
According to Marx, Christianity was the apex of religious
development, the most extreme form of religious alienation. The
variety of Christianity which Marx was most familiar with was a
very other-worldly Lutheranism, predominant in Germany during the
1840's.
9
Karl Marx, "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's
'Philosophy of Right': Introduction", in Early Writings, trans.
T, B. Bottomore (New York, 1964), p. 43. Hereafter this will be
referred to as "Introduction" ..
11
Marx to Bruno Bauer to deal with this topic. Like the other
10
See ahead pp. 36-39, and pp. 104-113.
11
Lobkowicz, p. 322.
12
.from Bonn. He spent the next two years writing and from that
days at Berlin and extended well into the latter part of 1842. It
12
Joung Hegelians, pp. 49-50.
13
See ibid., pp. 48-50.
14 --
Ibid., pp. 69-70.
13
The major work of Marx which survived this period was his
15
Karl Marx,
Epicurean Philosophy
Hague, 1967), p. 61.
Dissertation.
16
Dissertation, p. 62.
14
with Bauer to produce Die Posaune des jlingsten Gerichts liber Hegel
den Atheisten und Antichristen. This tract was written from the
planned a sequel to the Posaune and for his part, Marx delved
17
into the study of Christian art.
that Marx was not a "Sunday-atheist." One does not make open
17
See David McLellan, Marx Before Marxism (New York,
1971), pp. 68-70. Also, Young Hegelians, p. 71.
15
18
See Lobkowicz, pp. 303-335.
19
Karl Marx, Early Texts, trans. David McLellan (New York,
1971), p. 53.
16
Briefly, what Marx meant here was this: the theoretical critique
was little left to say about religion per se~ therefore, he did
this did not lessen the intensity of his atheism, but rather it
directly and exposed as inhuman, now the task at hand was to expose
20
"Introduction", p. 43.
21
Ibid.
17
better, what he saw the future to be, was the present. For
" . remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked
.22, .
~In short, the
A
self-interes t, than callous 'cash payment' .li .<
of the Jews, Marx claimed that religion was now the spirit of
civil society:
22
Manifesto, p. 44.
23
Karl Marx, "On the Jewish Question", in Early Writings,
p. 15. Hereafter this will be referred to as "Jewish Question".
18
other than egoism and selfish need and this was precisely the
revolutionized.
Marx at his word and evaluated Bauer's works from what Marx and
Engels said about them in The Holy Family and The German Ideology.
"24
See Roger Garaudy, From Anathema to Dialogue:" A"Marxist
Challenge to the Christian Churches, trans. Luke O'Neill (New York,
1966).
19
Das Kapital, it was very important that men saw the world for
at the world.
25
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Holy Family, trans.
R. Dixon (Moscow, 1956), p. 30. Hereafter this will be referred
to as Holy Family.
26
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The German Ideology,
trans. S. Ryazanskaya (Moscow, 1964), p. 38. Hereafter this will
be referred to as German Ideology.
20
ask where Marx himself placed atheism within his system. In The
for Marx, the next stage of history, that is, communist society.
27
Holy Family, p. 171.
28
Karl Marx, "Paris Manuscripts", in Early Writings, p. 156.
21
a place for atheism within his system, that is, communism and
29
"Paris Manuscripts", pp. 166-167; This passage has been
quoted at length, because Nicholas Lobkowicz cites this same
passage out of context and implies that atheism is not a consciously
integral part of the Marxian system. See Lobkowicz, p. 304.
30
See "Excerpt-Notes of 1844", in Writings of the Young
Marx on Philosophy and Society, pp. 271-272, where Marx elaborates
on the term "communal being", das Gemeinwesen.
22
apparently he was not taken by it. Certainly, one does not detect
31
Karl Marx, "Luther as Arbiter between Strauss and
Feuerbach", in Writings of the Young MarxonPhilosophy and
Society, p. 94.
23
speculative philosophy was nothing other than the last cover for
that there was no God, because this was the task and the accom-
the Reformation, that is to say, Luther's God was a God for man.
32
van Leeuwen, p. 185.
24
with Bauer that he grabbed hold of Feuerbach, but this was the
34
Feuerbach of the Thesen and GrundsYtze. In short, what Marx
'A .~ .... -. ....'
Hegelians had attacked Hegel from the outside, but only Feuerbach,
35
via what Shlomo Avineri terms his "transformative method",
33
Hook, p. 234.
34
See "Paris Manuscripts", p. 196.
35
Shlomo Avineri, The Social and Political Thought of
Karl Marx (Cambridge, 1968), p. 13.
25
out of time and space and made it into a subject, and then made
36
Ibid., p. 103.
37
It will be seen later that Marx disagreed with Feuer-
bach's definition of this real human subject.
38
"Paris Manuscripts", p. 214.
26
Hegel, Marx asserted, secondly, that nature and man are not
Hegelian edifice.
Given the tenuous state of his existence, man projects his God,
religion took place on two levels: the first was "The True or
39
Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity, trans.
George Eliot (New York, 1957), p. xxxix.
40
lbid., p. 13.
28
His argument was simply this: the predicates of the divine nature
The predicates, however, are the truth of the subject. From this,
Feuerbach concluded:
41
Ibid. , p. 14.
42--
Ibid. , p. 25.
29
man.
essence of religion.
consciousness:
43
Feuerbach viewed man traditionally. Thus, the three
faculties of man are cognition, conation, and affection.
30
Second, since the predicates of the divine and human natures are
identical, "[t]o enrich God, man must become poor; that God may be
45
all, man must be nothing." For example,
44
Feuerbach, p. 13.
45
Ibid., p. 26.
46--
Eugene Kamenka, The Philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach (New
York, 1970), pp. 51-52.
47
Feuerbach, p. 53.
48
Ibid.
31
(c) What Marx did and did not Take from Feuerbach
former teacher Bruno Bauer, could not accept the last two features
never say with Feuerbach that those who negate religion also negate
man.
man, but for the most part, he concentrated on its positive aspects.
stressed it was man who was the beginning, centre, and end of
50
but the alienation of man". Feuerbach never tired of insisting
49
"Introduction", p. 43.
50
Louis Dupre, The Philosophical Foundations of Marxism
(New York, 1966), p. 108.
33
his god, confronted him as an alien and hostile being. The more man
sixth thesis, Marx contended that because Feuerbach did not grasp
:1 ~_. " 53
the human essence as "the ensemble of social relationships", he
51
See "Paris Manuscripts", p. 122.
52
It is perhaps worth noting that Marx employed this
description in his discussion of the worker's alienation from
nature. It was Feuerbach who emphasized that'- man was a part of
nature. However, Feuerbach saw man's relation to nature as
passive, while Marx saw it as active.
53
"Theses", p. 402.
54
Ibid.
34
the seventh and ninth theses that this isolated individual belonged
society. This alien being, however, was not God, claimed Marx,
55
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right',
trans. Annette Jolin and Joseph O'Malley (Cambridge, 1970), p.
46. Hereafter this will be referred to as Critique.
56
"Jewish Question", p. 20.
35
of an alien being, it was Bauer who taught Marx how to make practical
57
Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy, eds. C. P. Dutt
and V. Chattopadhyaya (London, n.d.), p. 102.
58
"Introduction", p. 44.
36
did not deny that there are religions in primitive and classless
60
societies." Thus, for Marx, it would seem religion is an
59
German Ideology, pp. 60-61.
60
John P1amenatz, Ideology (London, 1971), p. 26.
37
Although he did not take up this question per se, it would appear
through human labour, that all mature societies have been dominated
61
"Introduction", p. 43.
62
German Ideology, P' 37.
38
from what just has been said, its ideologies also ceased to exist.
Using this reasoning, Marx could say that the bourgeoisie did
Ideology and the Manifesto that the bourgeoisie have not been
63
Ibid., p. 52.
64--
Manifesto, pp. 44-45.
65
German Ideology, p. 75.
39
66
a "brougeois prejudicel l , and the priest is its "paid ~vage
67
labourer". Thus, where the bourgeoisie have not yet destroyed
religion, they use religion to suit their o~~ purposes and .ignore
Marx took from Feuerbach and this was taken from his later works,
~ 5!";'-' '"
was his transformative method; he applied this method to Hegel's
an alien being and presented Marx with the outline for a theory of
ideology.
66
Manifesto, p. 58.
67
Ibid., p. 45.
40
v. Conclusion
from those of both Bruno Bauer and Ludwig Feuerbach is his novel
the actual term 'ideology' until 1845-46, the concept was seminal
gether all the strands of his theory in the work entitled The
German Ideology.
which includes not only religion, but also all forms of secular
illusion.
CHAPTER II
I. Introduction
(1844); The Holy Family (1844); and finally, The German Ideology
42
43
rather run throughout his early works. Because Marx does not
them while trying to analyze each one in turn. This procedure also
in this area.
is the only extant work which remains from his earliest studies.
This dissertation and the notes prepared for it are the best
source for information about Marx's ideas from late 1838 to 1841.
important for our study on two counts. First, this work clearly
to a later work
1
Dissertation, p., 61.
46
2
See Young Hegelians, pp. 59-61.
3
Dissertation, p. 62.
47
led him to deny the historicity of the Gospel accounts and to locate
With the breakdown of the Greek world, Bauer claimed the philosophies
than the exploited, Bauer argued, did it turn ba.c~to'. the philosophies
5
of Plato and Aristotle.
seems to stem from his practical atheism, that is, Epicurus' denial
While Aristotle did reproach the ancients for the belief that the
and
rejects Aristotle's idea that the heavenly bodies are immortal and
8
Ibid. , p. 102.
9
Ibid. , p. 107.
10
Ibid. , p. 105.
11
Ibid. , p. 108.
49
proofs for the existence of God. Marx says Hegel inverted the
'", ,~"., .~.
12
Karl Marx, "Reason and the Proof of God", in Writings of
the Young Marx on Philosophy 'and Society, pp. 64-65.
50
IV, there were renewed hopes, shared alike by the Young Hege1ians
the old edict. Increased repression, Marx argues, was due to the
not even mention the Christian religion, the implicit purpose of the
13
Karl Marx, "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship
Instruction", in Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and
Society, p. 75.
52
shield the Christian state from the press by eliminating any type
"
Incredulous
argues, there are both Catholics and Protestants in the state, how
14
Ibid., p. 76.
15
Ibid.
16
Ibid., p. 77.
53
denominations?
on the Christian state. First, for the young Marx, the state should
17
Ibid., pp. 77-78.
54
how can this be so, Marx asks, when Catholics and Protestants
these two reasons, then, Marx sees the Christian state as a contradic-
so much a Christian state, but religious sanctions for the status quo.
18
Karl Marx, "The Proceedings of the Sixth Rhenish Parliament",
in Early Texts, p. 35.
55
ment, the young Marx also sees morality as an autonomous and rational
sphere with its own universal laws and p~inciples. Contrary to the
maintains does not admit morality per se, but only allows an official
In The German Ideology, however, Marx will lump morality with the
rest of ideology.
19
Marx, "Comments on the Latest Prussian Censorship
Instruction", p. 78.
56
church to state.
degrades man below the beast by making an animal man's god. Thus,
20
Karl Marx, "The Leading Article in No. 179 of the KBlnische
Zeitu~: Religion, Free Press, and Philosophy", in Writings of the
Young Harx on Philosophy and Society, p. 115.
57
21
Ibid.
22
Ibid.
23
Ibid., p. 116.
58
and Lucian had not written or had not been read by the Roman
the truths of the Christian religion. If this were the case, Marx
:", -: ~-'- ~,
asks, why has every philosophy been accused of heresy by theology; were
Marx continues, is that the former searches for truth whereas the
Genuine
philosophy has become worldly and has entered the arena of the press,
have been drumming against the religious party [D. F. Strauss and
27
. Ibid.
28
Ibid., p. 118.
29
Ibid.
60
Marx proclaims, will bring forth truth and its appeal is exclusively
to reason.
matters, and reminded the censors that Christianity is not only the
foundation of all the European states, but also A i~ ~is .. the basis of
and the Prussian Civil Code do not even mention the Christian
religion: "[The Prussian Civil Code] does not say that the primary
Prussian Civil Code, for example, does not state that a marriage
30
Ibid. , p. 123.
31
Ibid. , p. 119.
61
Indeed the Christian state is not only contrary ,...t'~! .th~. opinions of
state and church, between the realm of Caesar and the realm of God:
Does not every Inoment of your practical life give the lie
to your theory? Do you consider it wrong to go to court
if you are cheated? But the apostle writes that this is
wrong. 33
Even the pope, Marx declares, rightly refused ~~ join the Holy
Alliance because the Church and not diplomacy must be the bond among
32
Ibid., p. 126.
33
Ibid.
62
34
Ibid. , p. 127.
35
Ibid. , p. 128.
63
typical of the way which Marx will develop, clarify, and formulate
36
his own ideas in opposition to those of his opponents. In his
and monumental edifice. For his part, Marx was less than satisfied
in the state. Then too, Marx realized that to~call into question the
36
This work was not published until 1927.
37
The first four pages of Marx's manuscript no longer survive,
but probably dealt with paragraphs 257-260 of Hegel's work.
64
end of Sophia.
On one level, Marx judged Hegel by the standards of his own system,
primary, reasoning since there was only one reality, there could
65
away with when man realized the predicates of God~ an illusory being~
system for being the last rational support of religion. Had not
38
Later, in a characteristically Feuerbachian manner, Marx
maintained the only difference between Christian theology and
speculative philosophy was while the former had only one incarnation,
the latter had as many incarnations as there were "things". See Holy
Family, p. 80.
66
in the Thesen of 1843. Both Feuerbach and Marx, in his turn, labelled
properly belonged to the human subject and, then, made the latter into
39
Critique, p. 84.
67
state itself. Marx, to be sure, was pleased with the results of his
religion, per s~, which invoked Marx's enthusiasm. If this were the
ideas prior to 1843. Also one would not expect to find Marx fre-
40
See "Paris Manuscripts", pp. 63-64.
41
Holy Family, pp. 186-187.
42
The term "species-being" originated in the writings of
Ludwig Feuerbach. He used the term to designate what was specifically
human in man, that is, an individual's consciousness of being a
member of a species.
68
cause of man's present alienation and the final obstacle in the way
43
See footnote 30, p. 21.
44
Critique, pp. 31-32.
69
Just as all men are equal in heaven but unequal on earth, so too
all men are equal before the constitution but unequal in civil society,
does not do away with the separation between bureaucrat and ordinary
citizen any more than just because every Catholic (male) has the
between cleric and layman. Marx further calls the bureaucrats "the
46
Jesuits and t.heologians of the state", describes the civil service
45
Ibid. , p. 50.
46--
Ibid. , p. 46.
47--
Ibid. , p. 51.
48
Ibid. , pp. 51-52.
70
Christianity:
And one certainly does find l1arx following Feuerbach to the extent
Feuerbach. Hegel, Bruno Bauer, and Marx, for example were all of
this view. B. Bauer, Feuerbach, and Marx all held that Christianity
was the apex of religion because man in some sense made up its
49
Ibid., p. 30.
71
was realized, until it had reached its final form and in this
.
in the first volume of Das Kaoital. Since the eldest son is accorded
50
Ibid., p. 102.
72
property at a11:its'6~mersarethemse1vestransf6rmed'int6the
51
property'of property". Just as in religion man is degraded to
religion.
the better known of his early works. Until recently, however, the
reason for its notoriety chiefly was due to critics of Marxism who
51
Avineri, p. 30.
73
Both articles were written during the latter part of 1843 and
rare praise, was done with dash, clarity, wit and profundity,
It
52
in a style which is as precise as it is pithy and vigorous".
the Christian state aIld did not subject the state as such to
a political critique.
52
"Jewish Question", p. 4.
53
MarxTs style here is polemical. Thus, the position he
imputes to Bauer should not be taken as a correct representation of
BauerTs own views.
74
America.
54
"Jewish Question", p. 9.
55
Ibid., pp. 9-10.
75
this, as I have shown, he differs from both Bruno Bauer and Ludwig
religion.
this: the state can emancipate itself only from state religion; it
56
See pp. 37-39.
57
German Ideology, p. 38.
58
"Jewish Question", p. 10.
76
itself. The atheism of the state, in other words, does not preclude
59
Avineri, p. 43.
77
tween man and his real, social life deserves careful examination. A
60
"Jewish Question", p. 11.
78
after its own fashion, that is, it actually can do no more than
individual and general interest. Thus, for Marx, the different forms
61
This is not to imply that Marx equated "true democracy" with
the modern state.
62
"Jewish Question", p. 15.
63
See McLellan, Marx Before Marxism, p. 135.
79
serfdom of the Middle Ages and equally know, when necessary, how to
64
defend the oppression of the proletariat. "
In the abstract political state, Marx goes on, the human
64
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, On Religion (New York,
1964), p. 83.
65
"Jewish Questionl!, pp. 13-14.
66
Ibid., p. 21.
80
but the atheistic state is, in fact, the "religious state. For
the perfected state; it does not need religion for its political
in its profane form, the modern state can dispense with religion.
67
Ibid.
68
Ibid., p. 19.
81
to become free". Marx begins his review by saying Bauer had once
rather than social question. For Marx, the real question is:
69
Holy Family, p. 158.
82
70
to abolish Judaism?" The profane basis of Judaism, Harx answers,
Jewish manner. The Jew not only has acquired vast sums of money,
but also has been instrumental in making money the world power.
The practical Jewish spirit has made Christian nations into Jewish
70
"Jewish Question", p. 34.
71
Ibid.
72
See Young Hegelians, p. 76. McLellan quotes a passage
from Das entdeckte Chris ten tum to show that Bauer also held Christianity
responsible for the egoism of civil society.
73
Ibid., p. 38.
83
Introduction"
for the purpose of this study, the first few pages of the Einleitung
74
Ibid., p. 39.
75
"Introduction", p. 4L}.
84
Here }~rx acknowledges his ovm debt to both scholars: in the main,
76
Ibid., p. 43.
85
man cannot change the world until he rids himself of all his
Following Bauer, here, Marx declares that what man found in heaven
was not a Divine Being nor even a human being; rather what man
77
Ibid.
78
Ibid.
86
from Feuerbach:
Even at this early date, before his own concept of man crystallized,
Feuerbach's:
In 1843, Marx conceives man as lithe human world, the state, society",
Not man's faculties, not man in isolation, not man in pristine nature,
79
Ibid.
80
"Theses", p. 402.
87
81
"Introduction", p. 43.
82
van Leeuwen, p. 191.
83
Ibid., p. 194.
84--
"Introduction", p. 43.
88
theme in the next few paragraphs, one should be careful not to fall
into the common prejudice that this is either the central or only
Without a doubt, this last sentence is the best known of any of Marxts
85
Eugene Kamenka, Marxism and Ethics (London, 1969), p. 42.
86
"Introduction", p. 43.
87
Ibid., pp. 43-44.
89
sions man and he is forced to face his real situation with sober
88
Ibid., p. 44.
89
Ibid.
90
Ibid.
90
discussion of religion:
91
LHwith, Meaning in History (Chicago, 1949), p. 49.
92
See Young Hegelians, pp. 78-79. McLellan argues that
most of the ~etaphors which Marx used to describe religion in the
Einleitung actually were borrowed from B. Bauer's works.
91
and Labour ll , to show how Marx makes the transition from theology
Smith:
93
"Introduction", p. 52. LHwith comments: "Only the atheism
of man with faith in himself must also see to the creation of the
world". LHwith, From Hegel to Nietzsche: The Revolution in Nineteenth-
Century Thought, p. 95.
94"Introduction", p. 53.
95"Paris Manuscripts", pp. 147-148.
92
"Alienated Labour", and the final part of the Third Manuscript called
detailed consideration.
which " . . explains the origin of evil by the fall of man; that
98
is, it asserts as a histori.cal fact what it should explain".
96
Ibid., p. 120.
97
See pp. 33-34 where I argue that JvIarx could reject the
thrust of Feuerbach's critique of religion while still retaining
Feuerbach's description of an alien being.
98
"paris Manuscripts", p. 121.
of the world of things. Labour does not only create
goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a
commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it
produces goods. 99
99
Ibid.
100
Ibid., pp. 122-123.
95
with religion:
very life.
is merely a means for subsistence, his real universal and free life,
also going beyond him, Marx distinguishes man from the animals by
101
Ibid., p. 125.
102
Ibid.
96
Marx asks, if the product of labour does not belong to the worker,
to whom does it belong? "Not the gods, nor nature, [Marx answers]
104
but only man himself can be this alien power over men." The
Just as the laity creates the priest, the worker creates the capitalist
and from other men, Marx concludes that private property is not the
103
Ibid., p. 127.
104
Ibid., p. 130.
105
Ibid.
97
cause, but rather the result and means of alienated labour. While
it, Marx attempts the difficult task of clarifying his ow~ relation-
it further develops the notion, broached in both the Kritik and the
theology.
especially Strauss and B. Bauer, for not having come to terms with
106
Ibid., p. 131.
98
three points:
begins with God and philosophy with the Spirit. Thus, both ignore
nature. Following Feuerbach, Marx does not see nature and history
than Feuerbach:
negation:
life as real human life. This pron~ts Marx to comment that the
religion.
110
Ibid., p. 214.
III
van Leeuwen, p. 192.
100
and communism are " . . . the first real emergence, the genuine
112
actualization, of man's nature as something real". Thus, Marx
through labour.
Jhe Holy Family was the first fruit of Marx and Engels'
112
"Paris Manuscripts", p. 213.
113
Ibid.
101
Bauer took in 1844, the period of II pure criticismll , and not Bauer's
114
Holy Family, pp. 31-32.
102
the inner life of man, but economic alienation is that of real life
115
and its supersession, therefore, affects both aspects". While
back upon man. For Marx, the way religion, particularly Christianity,
maid, Marie, comes under the fatal thrall of a priest. The priest,
into a sinner:
115
"Paris Manuscripts", p. 156.
116
Holy Family, p. 230.
103
'tavern maid was transformed into a nun and from nun to corpse.
117
Ibid.
118
Ibid. , p. 231.
119
Ibid. , p. 234.
104
120
Ibid., p. 171.
121
Ibid., p. 245.
122
Ibid., p. 89.
123--
German Ideology, p. 23.
l2/f
The full text of Die Deutsche Ideologie was not printed
until 1932.
105
theme through the Einleitung and his Thesen, I saw Marx repudiating
125
Karl Marx, lILetter to Arnold Ruge ll , in Early Texts, p. 60.
106
because the early Christians were for the most part slaves, the
Thus, Marx once more insists that religion, like the rest
126
van Leeuwen, p. 186.
127
German Ideology, p. 168.
128
Ibid., p. 201.
129
Ibid., p. 202.
107 .
In other words, man creates himself through his own activity, that
the act of procreation and then in the family, Marx finds, moreover,
mental labour.
130
Dupre, p. 148.
108
social unit, and the division of labour stretching beyond the family
Hegelians that these aspects are not four different temporal stages.
since the dawn of history and the first men, and which still assert
131
themselves in history today".
131
German Ideology, p. 41.
109
history, he falsely views his mvn work as both the motive force
" regard their ideology both as the creative force and as the
plishes this end in two main ways. On one hand, the ideologists
132
Ibid., p. lf61.
110
but also consoled the serfs for their degraded position within that
life of man:
conscience.
133
"Paris Manuscripts", p. 173.
III
Marx sees man owes his very physical existence, his individual
coitus of two human beings has produced the human being. Just
134
Ibid. , p. 208.
135
Ibid. , p. 166.
136
Ibid. , p. 164.
112
137
creation of new means of production. When in the course of time,
production, the old relations of production and with them the whale
repeats what was said in Chapter I that Marx thinks the bourgeoisie
any great precision, certain things are clear. First, Marx con-
137
In the capitalist era, however, supply dominates demand, .
causing an anarchy of production.
138
Manifesto, p. 72.
139
Ibid., p. 73.
113
follows from what just has been said, there will be no ideologies
society.
x. Conclusion
his position regarding religion was not well thought out and basically
whole thought. The question of religion was not merely the pastime
beyond the scope of the present study to enter into the debate
Only when these kinds of questions have been answered could the
115
116
discussion is the further point that Marx's atheism was not simply
peripheral to the rest of his system. For him, that critique was
1
"Introduction", p. 43.
117
change would result from the end of Christianity, while for the
they are as far removed from him as was Bauer. While it is important
basis for Christianity and Marxism must deflect Marx's own account.
must prove that Marx erred about the nature of religion and the
question of how much one can tamper with Marx's integrated system
2
Manifesto, pp. 79-80.
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